Today, and yesterday my two young grandchildren and myself have been playing games on the CBeebies Website – yet again! But from tomorrow I will have to be careful; because the State may be watching our every move.
Yes, believe or not the State could be watching “SHOCK HORROR – COUNCILLOR PLAYS GAMES ON CBEEBIES WEBSITE”; they could be watching “Tommy Zoom”, “Boo”, “The Roly Mo Show”, “Underground Ernie”, and much much more!!!! But today, it was “Finlay the Fire Engine”, “LazyTown”, “Lunar Jim”, “Fimbles”, and “Pingu” amongst others – I will have to careful, or I will be accused radicalising my lovely little grandchildren.
Seriously, tomorrow a European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months.
Police and the security services will be able to access the information to combat crime and terrorism.
Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: “I don’t think people are aware of the implications of this move. It means that everything we do online or on the phone will be known to the authorities.
“They are using this to produce probably the world’s most comprehensive surveillance system.
“This is a disgraceful example of the covert influence that Brussels has across our freedoms and liberties. The entire episode has been marked by a litany of secret dealings, vicious political games and a complete absence of transparency.”
Phil Noble of privacy group NO2ID, said: “This is the kind of technology that the Stasi would have dreamed of.
“We are facing a co-ordinated strategy to track everyone’s communications, creating a dossier on every person’s relationships and transactions.
“It is clearly preparatory work for the as-yet un-revealed plans for intercept modernisation.”
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